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Ian David McShane (born 29 September 1942) is a English actor. His television performances include the title role in the BBC series Lovejoy (1986–1994), Al Swearengen in Deadwood (2004–2006) and its 2019 film continuation, and Mr. Wednesday in American Gods (2017–2021). For the original series of Deadwood, McShane won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama and received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. As a producer of the film, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie. His film roles include Harry Brown in The Wild and the Willing (1962), Charlie Cartwright in If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969), Wolfe Lissner in Villain (1971), Teddy Bass in Sexy Beast (2000), Frank Powell in Hot Rod (2007), Blackbeard in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), and Winston Scott in the John Wick franchise (2014–present). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian McShane, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Jessica Drew's father Jonathan Drew geneticist and research partner found large amounts of uranium in their property, which gave them the financial resources to build a research facility to keep working on their controversial studies of evolution. life was good, until little Jessica became ill, poisoned by her long-time exposure to the uranium that was so prevalent in their land. Jonathan, being an expert on the regenerative and immunological properties of arachnids' blood, injected Jessica with an untested serum made with the blood of several uncommon species of spiders, in the hopes of immunizing her from the uranium radiation in her blood. Then, he sealed her in a genetic accelerator created by Herbert Wyndham to speed the process, but it only seemed to work at a very slow rate. Jess was kept in stasis for decades, while the chamber holding her kept her aging greatly slowed until the treatments finally finished in recent years but due to age needed Wyndham to make a clone to continue her vigilance. Jessica set of her own and got in trouble with a mob and saved by otto vermis who offered her a place in hydra which she thought was the good guys she was trained by tony masters.In her first and only field assignment for Hydra, Jessica refused to assassinate Nick Fury. Rebelling against Hydra, Jessica defeated Vermis in a battle to the death. Before he died Vermis tricked Jessica into believing that she was originally an artificially evolved spider instead of a mutated human.
